Trip With Me

This delicious portion of music+video (music always comes first!) goodness is a bit more personal. Most of the videos below are from artists/bands that I talked about/with on the pages of trippin’ the rift and that I keep following with great interest and pleasure. Let’s start with the trippiest of all “this is not trip-hop”...

From the city of Coverville comes this bloody death-match (just kidding, very peaceful competition) of two covers for Portishead‘s “Glory Box.” Covering Portishead songs is a thankless job, but these two contestants didn’t do too bad. John Martin turns “Glory Box” into soulful blues, and Kram gives a hazy 70’s psychedelic feel. Listen to podcast...

Everything genius is pretty fuckin’ far from simple. I can’t even start to imagine how difficult it must be to create something as beautiful and structurally perfect as Amon Tobin‘s dark masterpiece “Bloodstone”. And yet guys from Kronos Quartet managed to top even that, covering the song without pressing a single button. Everything genius is...